A general view of the app developed by GRIT (Gender Rights In Tech) during a workshop for sex workers in Johannesburg. GRIT developed a smartphone app to empower victims of gender-based violence by offering users an emergency panic button, deploying private security officers when activated, along with an evidence vault and resource centre. — AFP
JOHANNESBURG: She says she was violated by police. Now she's brainstorming an AI-integrated app with a panic button that alerts private security to help other women caught in South Africa's tragically high rates of abuse.
Peaches, as the 35-year-old sex worker asked to be identified, is among the more than a third of South African women that will experience physical or sexual abuse in their lifetimes, according to UN figures.
